Talk:Ontario rubric

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Is the rubric system different in other places? If not, then I think this should be part of Rubric, or should be at Rubric (marking scheme) (or something similar). -Frazzydee|✍ 20:28, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 The Ontario rubric is a specific rubric.Havl 19:00, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, rubrics have become a mainstream part of many educational institutions. Rubrics can have many forms, often invented by the teacher solely to fit the needs of a certain assignment. They are often used in high school, where teachers have a limited amount of time to teach many requirements, to show students the requirements for a project and how important each one is. Sometimes no other explanation will be given but the rubric. Often teachers will issue their rubric and have the students turn it in with the project; they will then return the rubric with the grade filled in for each segment. Sometimes rubrics are simple, like the Ontario rubric, and have only a few sections, but sometimes the sections take up pages and are weighted in tenths of points. Most lengthy rubrics are assigned points to add up to one hundred and so be very easily converted into percentage grades. Does anyone know the history of rubrics and how they became so commonly used in schools?